The Power of Radio

Since I switch careers from Architecture to Radio. I see the power of broadcast media. How one song you play can affect someone or a certain words can move or offend. It is quite an amazing medium. That is why I really want to see the movie ‘Talk to Me’.
Academy Award nominee [...]

My Favorite Festival So Far

Since moving to Milwaukee last year, I have been to many different festivals both large and small. Summerfest on several occasions, Irish Fest, Italian Fest, Brady Street Fest and various neighborhood festivals around the city. This past weekend I attended my favorite one so far. The Garfield Days Festival was a celebration of a [...]

Site of the Day: Beer meets Myspace

I thought this was be a cool site of day since I live in Brew City. The site is called Coastr. It is a social network for beer lovers.
Coastr is a simple and free service for people who love beer. Our goal is to allow you to connect with other passionate, like-minded people [...]

German Language=Sexy

On the air, I mentioned that there is a stereotype that the German language is not as sexy as French.  The singer from Germany, Joy Denalane a singer from Germany can easily disspell that stereotype. Check out her video here.

Joy Denalane - Sag’s Mir

My Top 5 Favorite Guitar Players

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my favorite guitar players and how my list does not include most of the usual suspects. Most of the “Guitar Gods” are not here. There’s no Hendrix, Clapton, Page or Beck (that would be Jeff, not Hanson). Those are all fine guitarists to be sure, but I’ve always [...]

Funky Floor Shakers & Solid Soul Senders

Like many people, I love a wide variety of music. Everything from the bone chilling, high lonesome vocals of bluegrass pioneer Ralph Stanley to the sacred steel sound of the Campbell Brothers to the Memphis soul of O.V. Wright to the big southern sounds of My Morning Jacket and the organic, instrument driven hip hop [...]

The Ultimate Mashup(Blend)

Since no one gave me an Iphone and my birthday is coming up(you still have time).  If I see an Iphone and it is not mine. This is what I am thinking…

Just make sure you are not using your Iphone around me near kitchen equipment.

Hip Hopcrasy

 
Ill Doctrine had video blog about a church that put up billboard in Chicago that stated do no listen to these rappers becuase it is trash.  It became a topic on CNN. Check it out, and let me know what you think.  The ironic thing about this billboard is that it is own by Clearchannel. [...]

Maybe Nas is right about Hip Hop

Is Hip Hop Dead? Maybe it is just seriously ill. I found this article over at XXL’s website about The Beastie Boys being the top selling hip hop album last week on Billboard. They only sold 44,000 copies of their record ‘The Mix Up’. Pharoahe Monch was second with only 12,000 copies(note: These [...]

10 years of OK Computer

It has been 10 years since the release of the classic Radiohead album OK Computer. To celebrate, the blog, Stereogum released a compilation of covers for free at their site. It features covers from the Mobius Band, Vampire Weekend, John Vanderslice, Cold War Kids, My Brightest Diamond and others. You may ask [...]